We follow Richard on his journey to just get back to his own London Above, but first he must help this mysterious Door at his own risk, but what does he have to lose? With nonsense and unexplainable happenings, this book is full of action and fantasy taking place in London Below. He is just floating through life not really giving much thought to what he wants and so when a girl named Door falls into his life, everything changes and Richard finally has to have a serious think as to what he wants from life.
Richard Mayhew is an average man who has an average job and an average engagement to an average woman who he doesn’t even really love that much. Neverwhere is a book set in an alternate London where there’s such a thing as ‘London Below’ which is home to the people that have fallen through the cracks of life and one in which the laws are different to the world we know. Some of them were really good but some of them I didn’t like at all, but I wanted to give his writing another go so I picked up Neverwhere full of optimism. I’ve never read anything by Neil Gaiman before but I have seen some TV/film that he has written for and enjoyed it, so I gave Fragile Things a go which is a collection of his short stories. There’s a girl named Door, an Angel called Islington, an Earl who holds Court on the carriage of a Tube train, a Beast in a labyrinth, and dangers and delights beyond imagining… And Richard, who only wants to go home, is to find a strange destiny waiting for him below the streets of his native city.” A single act of kindness catapults him out of his safe and predictable life and into a world that is at once eerily familiar and yet utterly bizarre.
Richard Mayhew is a young businessman who is about to find out more than he bargained for about this other London. A city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels, and pale girls in black velvet. “Under the streets of London there’s a world most people could never even dream of.
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